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Michelle Krill

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  • ubiquitous computing, or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives. Alan Kay of Apple calls this "Third Paradigm" computing.
  • Ubiquitous computing is roughly the opposite of virtual reality.
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    Ubiquitous computing, or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives. Alan Kay of Apple calls this "Third Paradigm" computing.
Chris Champion

Read/download samples | Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing | A book by ... - 0 views

  • paradigm of interaction that I call everyware.
    • Michelle Krill
       
      Almost sounds like science fiction.
  • and is delivered in a manner appropriate to our location and context.
    • Chris Champion
       
      delivered in context to what we are doing
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  • We will have to accept that privacy as we have heretofore understood it may be a thing of the past:
    • Chris Champion
       
      open source in life?
  • We will have to accept that privacy as we have heretofore understood it may be a thing of the past: that people will be presented with a bargain where access to the most intimate details of their lives is traded away in return for increased convenience, and that many will accept.
  • We hear about RFID tags being integrated into employee ID cards, a new modular sensor grid on the architectural market, a networking scheme proposing to use the body's own electrical field to carry information - and this in the general press, not the specialist journals.
    • Chris Champion
       
      RFID = radio frequency ID, its those white badges you wave in front of the black pad to get in the door. it is ALSO every box that gets aboard a Wal-Mart truck.
  • t is coming - and as yet, the people who will be most affected by it, the overwhelming majority of whom are nontechnical, nonspecialist, ordinary citizens of the developed world, barely know it even exists.
  • It is coming because something like it effectively became inevitable, the moment each of the tools, products and services we're interested started communicating in ones and zeroes.
  • But the technology we're discussing here - ambient, ubiquitous, insinuative into all the apertures everyday life affords it - will be environment-forming in a way neither of those are.
    • Chris Champion
       
      we cant' shut these off
  • ubiquitous computing is; establish that it is a very real concern for all of us,
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